Living your Yoga with Dr Melissa West

Rest Day Restorative Yoga | Yoga with Melissa 732

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This Rest Day Restorative Yoga class is designed to offer a true pause. It is an invitation to take a break from the overstimulation of social media and daily noise, allowing your nervous system to settle in silence. With minimal cues and long holds, this practice creates space for quiet, inward reflection and deep sensory rest. It is a gentle way to reset your energy and reconnect with the slower rhythms that often go unnoticed in the busyness of life.

It is also a rest day in the most physical sense. If you have been lifting weights, following a gym split, or moving your body with intensity, this class supports your recovery. The practice gives your muscles space to repair and rebuild while your body stays grounded in stillness. The restorative postures are thoughtfully chosen to open the body without effort, offering a full reset for both body and mind.

Props: Wall, 2 blocks, bolster, blanket, eye pillow, strap

Poem: Mary Oliver Today

If this class felt nourishing, you’re invited to go deeper inside our Revive and Thrive Incubator, where rest is not just a pause, but a pathway to healing and resilience. Inside the membership, you’ll find a dedicated Rest Incubator to support your recovery, restoration, and reconnection with what truly sustains you.

You’ll also find our Nervous System Incubator, a curated journey of somatic tools, breath practices, and yoga designed to regulate your energy and help you feel steady, safe, and supported in daily life. Whether you're unwinding from overstimulation or recovering from physical training, there’s a space waiting for you.

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15 Min Morning Yoga STRETCH to Feel CALM All Day | YWM 731

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Begin your day by gently coming home to yourself. In this 15-minute morning yoga stretch, we move with softness and presence, tuning into the steadiness beneath the surface. As you arrive on your mat, you’ll be guided to attune your body, breath, and energy to a grounded rhythm—one that invites clarity, calm, and centeredness to naturally unfold throughout your day.

This is a nourishing practice to support emotional regulation, nervous system balance, and inner spaciousness. Whether you woke up feeling rushed, scattered, or just needing a moment of quiet connection, this class offers a steady anchor. Let calm become your resting rhythm and carry it with you into whatever the day brings.

🌿 Want to take your stretching to the next level?

In June inside our membership, we’re diving deep into fascia-focused yoga. You’ll learn how slow, sustained myofascial release (MFR) can hydrate your tissue, restore elasticity, and support long-term flexibility and emotional resilience. If you’ve been feeling stiff, stuck, or overstimulated, this month is designed to gently unwind and reorganize your system—at the cellular level.

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Restorative Yoga for Digestion & Deep Nervous System Reset | YWM 730 

This class is a gentle invitation to return to your body’s natural intelligence. When life feels too fast, too demanding, or too much to process, your digestion often reflects it — through tightness, bloating, or sluggishness. In this practice, we soften the nervous system’s need to control, brace, or push through. You’ll be guided to shift from sympathetic overdrive into the parasympathetic “rest and digest” state — where healing, nourishment, and true integration become possible.

This class supports both physical digestion and emotional release, using restorative shapes, energetic cues, and frequency alignment to remind your system: you are safe to receive. You don’t need to earn rest. You don’t have to fix or force anything. Let sensation move through without labeling it. Let your breath and presence do the digesting. In this space of allowing, regulation becomes your boundary, trust becomes your medicine, and love becomes your inner rhythm.

💛 Want more support for your digestive health?

We have a whole section in our video library for members dedicated to digestion — including myofascial release, pranayama, self-massage, restorative yoga, and more.

🧘‍♀️ 13 classes in total to help you regulate, release, and receive.

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Yoga Nidra for Deep Energy Healing | Frequency Repair | YWM 729

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This deeply restorative Yoga Nidra is designed to support energetic healing and frequency repair across all levels of your being—physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and ancestral. Everything you’ve ever experienced leaves an imprint on your body. Over time, these imprints can distort your natural energy flow, creating patterns of pain, fatigue, emotional overwhelm, or disconnection from your soul’s path. Through guided awareness, intention, and subtle sensing, this Yoga Nidra helps you gently release these distortions and reconnect with your original energetic blueprint—the coherent, radiant essence of who you are.

Whether you're navigating chronic illness, emotional trauma, spiritual awakening, or ancestral entanglements, this practice invites you to soften into a healing field of coherence and clarity. You'll rotate awareness through your body, reprogram limiting patterns, and allow your nervous system to seal in a new frequency—one aligned with vitality, peace, and truth. This is a safe space to recalibrate, restore, and remember your light. ✨

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Join me this summer for Embody Your Energetic Blueprint, a powerful 9-week journey through the 9 centers of your Human Design—blended with nervous system wisdom, quantum healing, and deep energetic alignment.

This is for empaths, sensitives, and seekers ready to attune to their true frequency.

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Calming Yin Yoga Before Bed | Yoga with Melissa 728

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In this calming yin yoga before bed class, we will gently soften the subtle undercurrents of tension and control that often surface at the end of the day. Through slow, nurturing poses and invitations into wonder, surrender, and deep trust, you’ll soothe your nervous system and open to the quiet healing currents available to you as you drift toward sleep. This practice honors the wisdom of your body’s natural rhythms, allowing you to lay down the day’s burdens and receive the profound support of the Earth and stars that are already holding you.

Bedtime is a sacred, liminal threshold where your body, mind, and spirit become deeply receptive. This calming yin yoga practice will help you unwind from mental loops of "fixing" or "doing," and instead guide you into a space of pure receiving — magnetizing nourishment, wisdom, and repair during your sleep. Through breath, stillness, and gentle self-trust, you'll remember: you don’t have to hold it all together. You are already being lovingly carried by the greater field of life itself.

Poem: Surrender by Claudia Cummins

Props Needed: Yoga Blocks, bolster, blanket 

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You'll explore how to regulate and honor your energy in a way that's aligned with your soul’s true blueprint — gently, sustainably, and with deep self-trust.

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Gratitude as a profound, embodied state that aligns us with the cosmic heart and our multidimensional essence. Gratitude is not just an emotion but a transformative force that connects us to the divine and facilitates our evolution. When we embrace gratitude, we activate a form of prayer that transcends traditional boundaries, leading to a deeper connection with the present moment and the universal flow.

Gratitude is a transformative force that fosters healing, clarity, and a harmonious resonance with the universe. When we are humble and surrender in the practice of gratitude, it allows us to receive the full spectrum of light and love available to us. In this class we can wake up with gratitude, recognizing the sacredness in every moment and aligning ourselves with the higher dimensions of consciousness.

This gentle full body morning stretch is designed to awaken your body and open your heart. In this class, we meet the day with reverence. We allow gratitude to move through the breath and fom that place of embodied presence, we infuse our day with the energy of devotion and the sacredness of being alive.

☀️ Whether you’re just waking up or simply arriving more fully into your day, this class invites

you to experience gratitude as a frequency… a gentle current beneath every breath.

Props: Yoga Strap

Poem: Gratefulness by James Crews

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If the way I teach resonates with you

🌞 May – The Solar Plexus Portal: A Nervous System Map for Empaths & Sensitives

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This Yoga Nidra for Cellular Healing is a portal into deep restoration—where your body’s innate wisdom can come forward and remember how to heal. In this guided practice, you’ll be gently attuned to the intelligence of your cells, the rhythm of your breath, and the quiet coherence of your inner field. Through awareness, golden light, and the frequency of stillness, your nervous system softens, your energy recalibrates, and healing becomes a lived experience.

✨ If you’d like to take your rest even deeper, join our Yoga with Melissa Membership. Members receive audio downloads of all my Yoga Nidras, plus access to our month-long REST Incubator—a supportive space to soften, release, and truly restore. You can learn more and join us here: https://www.melissawest.com/membership

Restorative Yoga for Headaches 🤕| Yoga with Melissa 725 

If you’re in the middle of a headache or migraine, this class is for you. As someone who experiences them weekly, I know how exhausting and overwhelming they can feel. I also know that most yoga classes marketed for headaches simply aren’t doable when you're actually in it. That’s why I created this minimal-cue restorative yoga class — a quiet, prop-supported practice designed to meet you exactly where you are, without asking anything of you.

You’ll remain in inclined, supported positions to reduce head pressure, with optional extras like a heating pad for your neck and shoulders, an ice pack for your head, and an eye pillow if you’re light sensitive. There’s no talking once you are in the poses — just gentle guidance into stillness. My hope is that this practice can be a sanctuary when you need relief, softness, and permission to rest.

Props Needed: Bolster, Blocks, Blankets, Chair

Optional Extras: Eye Pillow, Heating Pad, Ice Pack 

🌿 Looking for more gentle support for headaches and migraines?

Inside my membership, you’ll find exclusive classes like:

🌀 Headache Soother – using a soft foam roller to gently release fascia around the skull, neck, and shoulders

🌸 Yoga for Headaches & Migraines – blending acupressure, self-massage, myofascial release, and mindful movement to retrain pain pathways

These practices are crafted with care from someone who truly understands. You’re so welcome to join us here:  ➡️  https://www.melissawest.com/membership

In this slow flow yoga class, we explore the connection between physical flexibility and nervous system adaptability—a key to staying steady in times of change. You’ll move through standing postures that mirror the grounding qualities of lying-down poses, bringing a sense of ease and release into your flexibility practice. This dynamic yet soft sequence includes hip openers, shoulder releases, and flowing movements that encourage a free and easy flow in both body and mind. By embracing flexibility on the mat, we practice meeting life with openness and resilience.

We are also in wood element season, the time of spring renewal and growth. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the liver meridian governs flexibility—not just in our muscles, but in our ability to adapt and flow with life’s transitions. If you want to dive deeper into seasonal wisdom and meridian-based yoga, check out my book on 5 Element Yin Yoga! 📖 💚

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Yin Yoga for Liver & Gallbladder Meridian | YWM 723

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Spring is the season of the Wood Element, when the Liver & Gallbladder meridians guide the smooth flow of Qi (energy). When these meridians are in balance, we feel ease, clarity, and emotional flexibility. However, when Qi stagnates, anger, frustration, and irritation can build up. This Yin Yoga practice supports emotional detox for spring, helping you release stuck emotions, restore flow, and soothe irritation. Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) inquiry, we will explore anger and frustration, allowing them to be seen and gently transformed.

This class includes a reading of “I Remember You” by Dave Ursillo and uses blocks and a blanket for support. Let go of tension, clear stagnant Qi, and connect with the free flow of energy within. ✨

📖 Want to go deeper? The green section of my book, Five Element Yin Yoga, explores the Wood Element in full depth.

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🔆 Join us LIVE this Sunday for a Spring Equinox workshop-style class inside our membership!

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